The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition - Brossura

Breit, William; Ransom, Roger L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691059861 ISBN 13: 9780691059860

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

This text offers a thoughtful summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of 12 major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. The book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers" leaves off, and brings the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. It presents a summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into the "dismal science" of economics.

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Recensione

"As a guide to the intellectual origins of many hotly debated current and proposed economic policies, The Academic Scribblers is an outstanding success."--J. Bernard Burnham, National Review

"Even to try to survey so much is commendable and the authors have done more. They take the reader through the ideas of the twelve in a way that shows that they are competent theorists themselves."--William D. Grampp, The American Political Science Review

"[The Academic Scribblers] is a compact, lucid survey of the ideas of an even dozen British and American economists.... A splendid book. It should be read by every undergraduate student of economics."--William H. Miernyk, Social Science Quarterly

Contenuti

	Foreword
	Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Pillars of Neoclassical Economics
Ch. 2	The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy	7
Ch. 3	Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought	19
Pt. 2	The Eclipse of Neoclassical Economics
Ch. 4	Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty	31
Ch. 5	Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production	43
Ch. 6	Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition	53
Ch. 7	John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium	65
Pt. 3	The New Economics
Ch. 8	Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes	81
Ch. 9	Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker	107
Ch. 10	Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist	137
Ch. 11	John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic	161
Pt. 4	The New Neoclassicism
Ch. 12	Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics	193
Ch. 13	Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire	207
Ch. 14	Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist	223
Ch. 15	Conclusion	263
	Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years	267
	Index	275

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691059861
• ISBN 13: 9780691059860
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Contatto del produttore: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; U.S.A.
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